Google GogglesA review and a glimpse of how the Google cardboard virtual reality kit works (above), and step by step instructions (below), will show you how you can build your very own pair of what I call the Google Goggles. GregClick to zoom
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Pandora in progress, STRANGE EGG tau in final completion / TOP EGG in progress, BlueShield 3 complete, BlueShield 4 in progress. PB breach continues into standoff, Isidic security breach deflected, HVBN substable to stable. M=2.
By Richard Nievo cnet.com Calico, the life sciences company funded by Google, on Wednesday announced a partnership with the biopharmaceutical firm AbbVie to pour up to $1.5 billion into a research facility focused on fighting age-related diseas...
ctvnews.ca Google is working on building chips operating on sub-atomic levels in ways making them exponentially faster than processors current...
Pandora in progress, STRANGE EGG sigma complete, BlueShield 3 in final completion, STRANGE EGG tau in progress, BlueShield 4 in progress. PB breach continues, HVBN unstable to stable, GBN modulation in progress, major systems / Isidic security ...
Scott Spangler, principal data scientist, IBM Watson Innovations, demonstrates how IBM Watson cognitive technology can now visually display connections in scientific literature and drug information. Tanya Lewis, LiveScience nbcnews.com Watch ...
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An intrepid computer scientist at the BBC has been quietly whittling away at one of the Web’s greatest mysteries. There are, admittedly, a lot of contenders for that title — but the case of “Webdriver Torso” is particularly puzzling.
Webdriver is a YouTube channel with a simple, impenetrable premise. Every hour or so, the channel posts a new 11-second sequence of red and blue boxes moving around the screen. The account ran from September 2013 until mid-April, when it mysteriously stopped; recently, the uploads have begun again. According to one theory, the channel could be a modern “numbers station” – cryptic radio signals used during the Cold War to send messages to spies. According to another, the videos are communications from aliens.
“If it is indeed aliens,” Beckett’s forced to conclude, “let’s hope they … come in peace.”
It would appear aliens are doing a lot of messaging these days: The Internet has no shortage of weird, cryptic codes and mysteries. These are just some of the most stubborn.
Cicada 3301: For over two years, amateur cryptographers have struggled with Cicada 3301, a kind of Internet scavenger hunt that relies on advanced code-breaking — and a working knowledge of things like obscure medieval literature and Mayan numerology — to unlock progressive clues. Who’s behind the puzzle is unclear, although many enthusiasts believe it’s a large, well-funded and shadowy organization trying to recruit into its membership. At this rate, we may never know.
The Markovian Parallax Denigrate: Early in Internet history, a community called Usenet got spammed, repeatedly, with SAT-word mumbo jumbo that reached “an almost transcendent level of bizarre.” Each post was titled “Markovian Parallax Denigrate,” and none of them made any conceivable sense. Generations of Internet sleuths have, over the past 15 years, tried to decode the messages or pin them to a government operative, with middling success. The Daily Dot concluded — in an exhaustive, fascinating piece that’s really worth reading in full — that the whole thing was probably the work of “a troll or prankster.” Then again, we still don’t really know!
A858: Since 2011, a (potentially robotic?) Redditor named A858DE45F56D9BC9 has posted long, coded strings of text to a sub-Reddit of its own making. Thousands of people have devoted themselves to interpreting the posts; there is even a program, A858StatsBot, that automatically calculates information like message length and statistical distribution for would-be decoders. Wrote the bot’s creator, in a GitHub post: “A858 is maybe the biggest mistery [sic] on Reddit.”
Bitcoin: This particular puzzle does not, perhaps, rise to the level of otherworldly creepiness that things like Cicada and A858 do. Nevertheless, the question of who created the cryptocurrency Bitcoin remains stubbornly unanswered — despite many attempts to out the man known as Satoshi Nakamoto.
There is, of course, only one thing even more frustrating than an impenetrable Internet mystery: When such a mystery is solved, and the solution is … stupid. The YouTube channel Pronunciation Book, c. 2010 – 2013, abruptly began counting down to an unnamed big event last July. Was it some nefarious NSA messaging? A sign of the coming apocalypse? Nope, just part of a ... conceptual art project.
Fans were, shall we say, not pleased.
streetwisetech.com
How would it make you feel to dive under water without scuba diving equipment and just use your computer? Google Maps has taken another level of mapping out the world, not only the streets of the cities but also a view of the underwater world. Many people find it easy to capture a 360 degree view of the city streets and upload it in the internet, but scientists are hoping that they can also do the same with all the wonders of the underwater, especially its coral reefs.
The scientists working in the US government are learning how to use the specialized fisheye lenses in the Florida Keys’ underwater in order to apply the concept of mapping a ‘street view’ for the purpose of management and research plans for the marine sanctuaries all over the country. Some of the shots the scientists took, both panoramic and rotating images will be made available this week online, which also includes a selection to Google Maps. This is to educate the masses that exploring the ecosystems of the world is still difficult and expensive to maintain.
So far, they have been able to produce about 400,000 photos from the reefs off the Caribbean and Australia, but it will be the first time such technology is utilized in the US waters. The images taken will add more data to the ones that have already collected, which will define the failures and successes of restoring the corals. They will also assist the scientist in studying the effects of climate change such as the warming temperatures of the ocean, hurricanes on the reefs, pollution and many more.
It is certainly educational, as it will give people, who cannot swim underwater or do not have access to it, an idea what the scientists mean. They will put up special preservation areas at particular spots in the sea, which will be shown through Google Maps, according to Mitchell Tartt, a chief officer from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.
The cameras that are used to capture the underwater views are the same ones used to produce the images for Google Street View. It is a spherical-shaped triple lens SVII camera that is mounted on a car. Instead of using the car, they attach the camera to the scuba divers then powered through its waters by the small motors. There are smaller versions too, which are attached to tripods but still tested in the Florida Keys.
Pandora in progress, STRANGE EGG in progress, BlueShield 3 in progress. PB breach continues. HVBN stabilized and clear, several medium Isidic security breaches deflected. M=12.
Pandora in progress, Defo removal in progress. Systems MDS/PPN security breach deflected, PPN morph into PB. HVBN substable to stable, several medium Isidic security breaches deflected. M=4.
Pandora in progress, Defo removal in progress. Major systems security breach in deflection, HVBN substable to stable, several medium Isidic security breaches deflected, PPN almost removed. M=7.
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